Word: explains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nancy Fisher '54, electoral chairman, will explain procedure for class elections. Petitioning for freshman officers will continue until Saturday noon. Voting will take place the following Tuesday and Wednesday. Winners will be announced October...
...Turney Gratz, Kansas City friend of Democratic National Committee Chairman Bill Boyle, was called to the stand to explain about his income. During the four years that he was a second-rung executive in the RFC, Gratz said, Boyle had paid him $11,000 for "outside work." Boyle, at the time, was a private attorney representing, among others, clients trying to get RFC loans. Gratz insisted that he had earned the $11,000 by keeping Boyle's personal books and handling his investments after hours, although he was neither an accountant nor an investment expert. He admitted introducing hundreds...
...George Gabrielson, chairman of the Republican National Committee, dropped in to explain why he has been getting paid $25,000 a year for looking after the $18.5 million loans of Carthage Hydrocol, Inc., a Texas corporation which makes petroleum out of natural gas. He is president and counsel of the company, Gabrielson testified, but has never tried to use "influence." He called many times on Republican Harvey J. Gunderson when Gunderson was RFC director in charge of the Carthage Hydrocol loan. He called on RFC's new boss, Stuart Symington, to talk about a delay on the payments...
...natured criticism of the Americans." He tells the voters: "We make no promises of easier conditions in the immediate future. Too much harm has been done." His biggest appeal: he reminds Britons of national greatness. Workers, cheering a Churchill appearance while still resolved to vote Labor, often explain: "Winnie's above politics...
Luck doesn't explain the fact that the Giants failed to get the "big hit" while the Yankees didn't fail. The Giants' incredible pennant drive was achieved with one timely hit after another, but yesterday they left twelve men on base to the Yanks' five...